Look: NASA captures the space station in the sun

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A NASA photographer recently captured photos of the International Space Station as she flew over the sun.

The video consisted of nine images of photos, which show the laboratory in orbit with a crew of three on board when crossing the sun at about five miles per second.

The photos were captured on October 7 in Suffolk, Virginia, by NASA photographer Joel Kowsky.

Commander Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, are aboard the space station.

Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos were to join the group, which was due to launch on October 11th from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The two astronauts crammed into a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but only minutes after takeoff, the rocket triggered an emergency landing.

"Shortly after the launch, there was an anomaly with the booster, and the launch climb was halted, which resulted in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft," NASA said in a statement. A press release.

Both crew members survived and are in good condition.

SEE THE SPATIAL STATION

An interactive tool from NASA can give astute astronomers a glimpse of the space station in the sky.

The Space Agency's Spot the Station website tells people when the space station will be visible from their city, how long it will be visible and where to look in the sky. According to the website, the station will be visible from Staten Island until October 31, early in the morning.

The space station is the third brightest object in the sky and is visible to the naked eye. You do not need to use a telescope or any other special equipment to see the International Space Station, NASA said.

It is visible because it reflects the sunlight. Since the station is not bright enough to be seen during the day, it can only be seen when dawn or dusk is at your location. According to NASA, it looks like a fast plane, but much higher and traveling thousands of kilometers at an hour faster.

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